In general I love the coupons and packages, but not the way they work together. I just voted for a feature request to allow the pro to prevent stacking of the discounts. For effective marketing you really need to be able to separate the two discounting methods.

http://feedback.smugmug.com/forums/1...d-for-packages

Packages and coupons should be able to serve two different functions:

- packages are only used to upsell quantity, at a discount.

- coupons can be used for that, but also can be used for:

--- trigger timing of purchase ("buy within two weeks for 20% discount")
--- reward returning customers with X% off
--- viral marketing (customers send friends secret coupon codes for X% off)
--- reward for facebook page likes (i.e. like-gating)

There needs to be a way to optionally separate the packages and coupons functions. Perhaps in some rare cases you would want the coupon to apply to the already discounted package, but given that the package is already going to represent a discount 100% of the time it would be uncommon.

Please give us either a checkbox on the coupon page for disabling application to packages, or a checkbox on the packages page disabling application of coupons.

Hi guys (SmugMug),

Is it possible for me to create coupons for my clients to download images for free by limiting the number of images?

I was thinking that once we set the PriceList for each image, I should create a coupon base on the cost price x number of images that I intend to give out for free. What other additional cost should I add on so both parties don't have to pay anything?


Regards
Stephen

How do I create or set coupons so that they are only valid for specific customers? I need to give a $20 credit to 10 people who paid a $20 sign-up fee at a horse show, but not allow them to "share" the coupon code with friends who could then also get $20 off without having paid the sign-up fee.

Originally Posted by jcdill How do I create or set coupons so that they are only valid for specific customers? I need to give a $20 credit to 10 people who paid a $20 sign-up fee at a horse show, but not allow them to "share" the coupon code with friends who could then also get $20 off without having paid the sign-up fee.

You have to give each customer their own specific coupon code - and make the coupons single use only.

Greetings All,
I was planning on doing a Buy 5 get one Free promotion and just thought I'd check to see any suggestions or hints from forum on best way. I was planning on using an "Amount Off" coupon with minimum purchase setting equal to buying 4. Intention being they buy 5 use coupon and get equivalent of one free. Is that how others have done or is there a better way to accomplish this?
Cheers,
scott

Originally Posted by FabFierceFotoger Greetings All, I was planning on doing a Buy 5 get one Free promotion and just thought I'd check to see any suggestions or hints from forum on best way. I was planning on using an "Amount Off" coupon with minimum purchase setting equal to buying 4. Intention being they buy 5 use coupon and get equivalent of one free. Is that how others have done or is there a better way to accomplish this?

Scott,
The minimum purchase option refers to an amount in USD. So what you could do is to calculate the price of 5 items and then give an amount of in the value of one of the items.
Note that you can't restrict coupons to specific products which means that a customer can use the coupon with any products as long as the "minimum purchase" amount is met.

Another option might be to use the packages feature which allows you to create a specific set of products and set a price for these. Packages are not available for digital products.
For details, check out the packages page.

Originally Posted by Andy That's on the list for a future revision to coupons - but for now, many folks make a quick screen grab, like so:

So 18 months later and still no progress on linking the coupon? C'mon Smugmug!